This was my point - copyright as it existed for ages was beneficial. It's only been in VERY recent years that copyright was extended to what you so aptly term "obscene" duration. The Statute of Anne (1710?) pretty much set the tone for a few centuries (source: Richard Lanham The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts), limiting exclusive rights to 28 years, after which the work would enter the public domain. In 1886, the Berne Convention extended this to international copyright.
This was the standard for centuries changing only beginning in the early 1990s. At varying points between 1991 and 2002, this was extended by most countries to somewhere between the life of the author plus fifty and plus seventy years. This is not just - I'm much in favor of the laws established in 1710 and 1886 - not the recent greedy lobbying-garnered extensions. I hope this makes it clearer.
Did you mean DRM or copyright? Copyright as it existed for ages was beneficial: the best artists, writers, etc. no longer had to rely solely on aristocratic sponsorship as they could trust that some foreign publisher wasn't going to - for example - take a book they had written (and think of Moby Dick - that must've been a bitch to hand write and then hand copy for a publisher to set in type) and then resell it without paying any royalties. Contrary to the popular mindset of some people on this site (go ahead - mod me flamebait), this hurt not just the original artist, getting screwed out of being paid for his work because of a lack of international copyright, but also native artists, whose works the publishers didn't print because they would have to pay for them. It was a huge racket in the early 19th century: American writers didn't get published because American printers would steal British writers' work and profit on the cheap.
I'll go along with you if you meant DRM. If you meant copyright, you obviously have no clue about the subject and should go back to Digg.
The words 'dick' and 'cock' in English are slang terms for the human 'penis', of which only males of our species have one. Further, except in the case of extreme and rare genetic defects, male humans have exactly one penis. Thus using the term 'suck my dick orcock' is illogical as both terms refer to the same male appendage.
Thank you, fine sir, but a brief addendum:
In this sentence, "cock" could also be seen as having the properties of a possible verb - "cock" as in "to ready a firearm for projectile discharge" - the dullard appears to be setting up a second clause - an additional option if the hearer does not wish to "suck." However, as there is no object to "cock," again he fails.
I should thank him: he provided me with the opportunity to use "dullard." I also said "projectile discharge" without smiling until after the fact...
Did it ever occur to you that some people might be somewhat brighter than you? Might possibly have better time management skills? It must be difficult, having the rest of the world ignore your brilliance while "clowns" like him succeed in a number of fields concurrently.
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I don't know why this idiotic meme keeps springing up. This is not a meme. I don't blame you for your confusion, because of this:
Early this year the meme circulated . . . This is idle speculation, rumormongering, but it is not a meme. A meme is a concept, a unit of cultural information that is propagated throughout a population, variants of which are eventually normed into a common unit: the pop tunes of one era become classics in another, catch-phrases become old sayings, political justifications for racism (slavery) become culturally embedded into legal practice (segregation).
Besides, formats are no longer relevant when it comes to porn. We have the internet and hard drives.
Opening a 10 year old Word document is not a trivial task, and big bucks get spent trying to go back in time. Nonsense, poopypants! I could open Word 4.0 (1989) documents right out of the box with Office 2004 (2003) with no trouble - and no add-ons - whatsoever. Perhaps you should actually find out what it is you're talking about before spewing. Crap like that only hurts what you're trying to support: you can make plenty of fact-based arguments weighing.doc vs..odf without resorting to made-up hyperbole that - in the long run - only makes supporters of open source software look like idiotic zealots.
I've just been through the process of applying for jobs, and most of the recruitment companies I dealt with wanted it in.doc format rather than PDF. This sounds right - I worked as the editorial assistant at an academic journal publisher while in grad school, and when we started accepting articles online, we preferred.doc or.rtf. Not because of import, but because of export: reviewers had to sign in to retrieve the article for review, and our software generated a pdf with line numbers (for commentary) and watermarks ("Peer Review Only") for reviewer use.
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The hype sounds similar to the last time an electric car went on the market. If you remember, the conditions of driving one were the same, as well: you couldn't "own" the car, you had to lease it. Yes, you can own the car this time, but without the battery, it's pretty damn useless, no?
Some company in denmark is working on dance clubs that would work in a similar fashion (lights and volume powered by the activity on the dance floor). They debuted a working prototype of the floor (10 meters square) at the Live Earth concert. I just heard about it, but it sounds similar: http://www.sustainabledanceclub.com/
Grammar check is completely useless. The University of Washington faculty have an interesting page linking files that pass grammar check. Some of these are absolutely hilarious.
If it's anything like the $60 version available to students on my campus, it means that they cannot upgrade it and receive no warranty. They have to pay another $60 for a "full" academic version.
But it is in a position to cut off their internet connection if they're using the university network for activity that puts the school in danger of lawsuit. Ask some random students if that is punishment and see what they say.
The Atari 800 was my first computer - and well indeed am I acquainted with the "hole punch" trick, only we used a pair of scissors to snip a notch into the side. That was a pretty nice machine, for the time: letter perfect was a nice little word processor, and I can remember my dad using about a half dozen floppy disks to create a database in Data Perfect - not only that, but he was awed by how "few" disks it took! He called his brother to brag. He got his Ph.D. in Ecology in 1977 at the University of Tennessee. When he got computer time, he would use a hand truck to take his boxes of punched cards (do NOT bend, spindle, or mutilate) from where he stored them to the computer.
And here I bitch about my 80GB hard disk being too small.
Most people don't refuse to think analytically. They've just never learned, and their life experiences have not yet shown them the value of acquiring that skill.
I might disagree: on some level, human beings have an innate ability for "analysis," it's just not "analysis" as we've been conditioned by an increasing level of abstraction in the public sphere since the printing press allowed us to record ideas and disseminate them widely - and others to build upon that, and so forth. Even a toddler learns to manipulate his or her environment using tools - which requires analysis. It isn't the same sort of analysis that we harness through SPSS, or the sort that an attorney might when considering a brief - it's more basic, but it is a critical evolutionary development without which we might not have automobiles, computers, McDonalds, rubber dog poo, and all the other accoutrements of civilization.
OTOH, I might be inclined to agree with you that the public school system - with coddling parents playing an equal or greater role - might cause many to "unlearn" many of the analytical skills that they build in childhood as they learn to navigate the world.
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This was my point - copyright as it existed for ages was beneficial. It's only been in VERY recent years that copyright was extended to what you so aptly term "obscene" duration. The Statute of Anne (1710?) pretty much set the tone for a few centuries (source: Richard Lanham The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts), limiting exclusive rights to 28 years, after which the work would enter the public domain. In 1886, the Berne Convention extended this to international copyright.
This was the standard for centuries changing only beginning in the early 1990s. At varying points between 1991 and 2002, this was extended by most countries to somewhere between the life of the author plus fifty and plus seventy years. This is not just - I'm much in favor of the laws established in 1710 and 1886 - not the recent greedy lobbying-garnered extensions. I hope this makes it clearer.
Did you mean DRM or copyright? Copyright as it existed for ages was beneficial: the best artists, writers, etc. no longer had to rely solely on aristocratic sponsorship as they could trust that some foreign publisher wasn't going to - for example - take a book they had written (and think of Moby Dick - that must've been a bitch to hand write and then hand copy for a publisher to set in type) and then resell it without paying any royalties. Contrary to the popular mindset of some people on this site (go ahead - mod me flamebait), this hurt not just the original artist, getting screwed out of being paid for his work because of a lack of international copyright, but also native artists, whose works the publishers didn't print because they would have to pay for them. It was a huge racket in the early 19th century: American writers didn't get published because American printers would steal British writers' work and profit on the cheap.
I'll go along with you if you meant DRM. If you meant copyright, you obviously have no clue about the subject and should go back to Digg.
Thank you, fine sir, but a brief addendum:
In this sentence, "cock" could also be seen as having the properties of a possible verb - "cock" as in "to ready a firearm for projectile discharge" - the dullard appears to be setting up a second clause - an additional option if the hearer does not wish to "suck." However, as there is no object to "cock," again he fails.
I should thank him: he provided me with the opportunity to use "dullard." I also said "projectile discharge" without smiling until after the fact...
Atari DOS 1.2 FTW!
Recycled iMacs (ones that have been replaced) frequently end up as kiosks.
Did it ever occur to you that some people might be somewhat brighter than you? Might possibly have better time management skills? It must be difficult, having the rest of the world ignore your brilliance while "clowns" like him succeed in a number of fields concurrently.
Besides, formats are no longer relevant when it comes to porn. We have the internet and hard drives.
I prefer this one - http://www.planet-zhadum.com/mshplogo.gif
The hype sounds similar to the last time an electric car went on the market. If you remember, the conditions of driving one were the same, as well: you couldn't "own" the car, you had to lease it. Yes, you can own the car this time, but without the battery, it's pretty damn useless, no?
I was listening to this on the radio as I typed it - they said "Danish" company. I suppose that's their bad... at least I didn't link to Entenmanns.
Some company in denmark is working on dance clubs that would work in a similar fashion (lights and volume powered by the activity on the dance floor). They debuted a working prototype of the floor (10 meters square) at the Live Earth concert. I just heard about it, but it sounds similar: http://www.sustainabledanceclub.com/
Grammar check is completely useless. The University of Washington faculty have an interesting page linking files that pass grammar check. Some of these are absolutely hilarious.
If it's anything like the $60 version available to students on my campus, it means that they cannot upgrade it and receive no warranty. They have to pay another $60 for a "full" academic version.
Open options or preferences, turn off "Auto-Correct." Took me about 30 seconds after switching over from Corel.
But it is in a position to cut off their internet connection if they're using the university network for activity that puts the school in danger of lawsuit. Ask some random students if that is punishment and see what they say.
You might like the Making of America collection of periodicals from the early 19th century forward - at Michigan and Cornell.
Not to mention making it harder to catch said dangly bits in a zipper... You may all wince and turn from the screen.
Who the hell is JK Rawlins? Is that what illiterates call J. K. Rowling?
Evidently, "ginormous" is now a real word, found in both Merriam-Webster and the Oxford English Dictionary.
The Atari 800 was my first computer - and well indeed am I acquainted with the "hole punch" trick, only we used a pair of scissors to snip a notch into the side. That was a pretty nice machine, for the time: letter perfect was a nice little word processor, and I can remember my dad using about a half dozen floppy disks to create a database in Data Perfect - not only that, but he was awed by how "few" disks it took! He called his brother to brag. He got his Ph.D. in Ecology in 1977 at the University of Tennessee. When he got computer time, he would use a hand truck to take his boxes of punched cards (do NOT bend, spindle, or mutilate) from where he stored them to the computer.
And here I bitch about my 80GB hard disk being too small.
I might disagree: on some level, human beings have an innate ability for "analysis," it's just not "analysis" as we've been conditioned by an increasing level of abstraction in the public sphere since the printing press allowed us to record ideas and disseminate them widely - and others to build upon that, and so forth. Even a toddler learns to manipulate his or her environment using tools - which requires analysis. It isn't the same sort of analysis that we harness through SPSS, or the sort that an attorney might when considering a brief - it's more basic, but it is a critical evolutionary development without which we might not have automobiles, computers, McDonalds, rubber dog poo, and all the other accoutrements of civilization.
OTOH, I might be inclined to agree with you that the public school system - with coddling parents playing an equal or greater role - might cause many to "unlearn" many of the analytical skills that they build in childhood as they learn to navigate the world.
And replace them with ... more people just like them? Would we have an election? Who would ensure that it was fair? Armed men at gunpoint?